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posted by NCommander on Sunday February 16 2014, @10:13PM   Printer-friendly
from the ¡sᴉɥʇ-sǝlpuɐɥ-ʍou-ǝʇᴉs-ǝɥʇ dept.
So, after dealing with a bit of monkeying with the database, I'm pleased to announce that Soylent should (in theory) have support for UTF-8 starting immediately. Now obviously this isn't well tested, so this is your chance to break the site in two, consider the comments below to be "open season" so to speak. I know the comment preview has some issues with UTF-8 (and it only works at all in Plain Text or HTML modes)

For purposes of breakage, anything that breaks the site layout/Reply To/Parent/Moderate buttons, or breaks any comments beyond itself is considered bad. We need to stop those. If you can break it (which shouldn't be hard), you earn a cookie, and I'll get you in the CREDITS file as something awesome.

For comments that are just plain unreadable, moderation will take care of them, and that isn't considered a bug. So go forth and BREAK my minions! ()}:o)↺
 
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  • (Score: 1) by Techwolf on Sunday February 16 2014, @10:29PM

    by Techwolf (87) on Sunday February 16 2014, @10:29PM (#325)

    oooooOOOOoooɹɹɹɐɐɐɐ --werewolf greeting in upside down. :-)

  • (Score: 1) by ticho on Sunday February 16 2014, @10:34PM

    by ticho (89) on Sunday February 16 2014, @10:34PM (#330) Homepage Journal

    Alas, mirrored text (done by using ‮) doesn't seem to work, even if it does show up mirrored when pasted in the comment editbox.

  • (Score: 1) by c0lo on Wednesday February 19 2014, @02:58AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday February 19 2014, @02:58AM (#2111) Journal

    A character beyond what UNICODE restricts itself: &amp#x20FFFF; - shows like
    Something below the max limit, valid, but unassigned 𰀁 - shows like
    Something that's an invalid UNICODE character -  - shows like
    The REPLACEMENT CHARACTER i.e. � - shows like �

    Now, what the above will do inside the storage, I don't know, I'm just trying to go forth and BREAK those minions!

    (hmmm, the "preview" looks like they are totally kicked out, not replaced by the replacement character [wikipedia.org] - won't cry over the loss of it)

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford